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Today in Tech History – June 3, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 3rd, 2016

1889 – The first long-distance transmission of electricity took place, sending power from a hydroelectric generator at Willamette Falls 14 miles to 55 street lights at 4th and Main in Portland, Oregon.

1948 – Ed Brown Jr., a former Navy pilot, opened a fly-in movie theater near Wall Township, New Jersey. You could also drive in. The theater had space for 500 cars and 25 small planes could land in a nearby airfield and taxi over to the theater.

1965 – Gemini 4 launched on the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performed the first US spacewalk.

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DTNS 2775 – Oh Snap! We Overtook Twitter!

Daily Tech News Show / June 2nd, 2016

Can Snapchat avoid becoming Twitter? Can Twitter avoid becoming Yahoo? Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss Snapchat passing Twitter in daily active users.

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#256 – Interview With Hardcore Game Of Thrones

Shows/ Sword and Laser / June 2nd, 2016

We talk with Jason Greene and Alex Berg from Hardcore Game of Thrones, a show that tells the history of Westeros in the style of Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.

Today in Tech History – June 2, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 2nd, 2016

1883 – Thomas Edison and Stephen D. Field built the world’s first elevated electric railway. It was a narrow-gauge 3-foot-wide track in the gallery around the edge of the main exhibition building of the Chicago Railway Exhibition. It ran nine miles per hour.

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applied for British Patent number 12039 regarding a system of telegraphy using Hertzian waves. We’d call it radio.

2003 – The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. It was the fastest planetary probe to be built.

2014 – Apple announced OS X Yosemite and iOS8 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Among the features were the ability to answer phone calls on your OS X computer, the ability for iOS apps to talk directly to each other, third=party keyboards for iOS, and a new programming language called Swift.

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DTNS 2774 – Computer, Make Me Some Eggs

Daily Tech News Show / June 1st, 2016

Internet adoption is slowing and voice assistant usage is about to skyrocket. Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt discuss that and more from Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report.

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Today in Tech History – June 1, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 1st, 2016

1890 – The US Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine for the first time. This gave Hollerith the basis to later found his Tabulating Machine Company, which was one of four companies that merged to form IBM.

1944 – The Colossus Mark 2 was put into service at Bletchley Park in Great Britain, just in time for the invasion at Normandy.

1999 – The Windows version of music-sharing program Napster was released.

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East Meets West 346 – Learning What to Fear

East Meets West/ Shows / May 31st, 2016

Thoughts on Scandinavia, surprising facts about Oregon, you can’t always legislate improvement, you can’t always guarantee failure, the history of the dust bowl, learning what to fear.

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DTNS 2773 – The Three Stages of Buzzwords

Daily Tech News Show / May 31st, 2016

Computex, like all tech conferences brings on the buzzwords. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt try to predict which buzzwiords will go mainstream (like smartphone did) and which are destined for the trash heap. (RIP netbook).

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Today in Tech History – May 31, 2016

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 31st, 2016

1941 – Electric eye detectors were first used to measure high-jumping height. A track meet of the Schenectady, NY, Patrolmen’s Association used equipment designed by General Electric, comprising of a movable light source and four electric eyes.

1943 – Chief consultant John Mauchly and chief engineer John Presper Eckert began leading the military commission on the new computer ENIAC. They would take one year to design the computer and 18 months to build it.

2006 – Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay website and shut it down. The site relaunched from servers outside Sweden.

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DTNS 2772 – Headlines Only

Daily Tech News Show / May 30th, 2016

Just the headlines about Asus announcements from Computex and more.

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